coco

plural cocos · plural cocoes · alternative nonstandard cocoa

1. Coconut palm.

   I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.

   1992, Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti, page 52

2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.

   The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […]

   1813, John Adams, “A Voyage to South America”, in John Pinkerton, editor, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, page 355

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   They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.

   1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”, in Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes. … The Second Part., volume II, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, →OCLC, page 1643 [sic: 1653]

   You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari.

   2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Caribbean 2008, →ISBN, page 468

plural Cocos · alternative Lo Coco · alternative Cocco · alternative lo-Coco · alternative Lo-Coco · alternative Lococo · alternative LoCoco · alternative loCoco

1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
2. countableuncountableA female given name.
3. countableuncountableA surname from Sicilian.

plural CoCos

1. abbreviationbusinessAbbreviation of contingent convertible bond.

   Synonyms: CoCo bond